Best Sail Poems

* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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cast tie-lines to shadowy depths above
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With Your Voice I Sail

		My voice 
		    may stumble, failing
 			a clear path to trace but 
			    your smiling voice always steers me
			         clear of snags and boulders and, as I...

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As the last opalescent glow of sunset

fades away

I sail this ship alone

towards a crimson horizon

over a starlit sea

to the soft lapping of waves

which lullaby my destiny

I sail this ship alone

far from the coral sand

far from the pebbled beach

far from my sun-kissed land

Tonight there is no...

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Double Rhyming Sonnets, Each A Perfect One Hundred Words

(1.)
Rhyme For Rhyme, Sail Lights Of Deepest Sublime,
A set of double rhyming sonnets

Rhyme for rhyme, poetry's seeking heart yearns
to bring beauty, setting this world ablaze
raging fires-  eternity's breath burns
man and soul, to defeat world's morbid grey-

And...

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Together the Owl and the PusyCat were married
Then again sailed out over the deep blue seas
Searching forever for the great Land of Nod,
To the place where they could find true peace.
True peace, true peace… Where they could find true peace.

The love that twined forever within...

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WHY DON'T WE SAIL AWAY, GO WHERE THE DOLPHINS PLAY
LEARN WHAT THE TRADE WINDS SAY ABOUT BEING IN LOVE
ON A TROPIC AISLE WE'LL PLAY AWHILE

WE'LL LEAVE OUR TROUBLES BEHIND
PUSH THE BUTTON FOR REWIND
MAYBE FIND SOME PEACE OF MIND
AND MAKE THE PIECES FIT
AND PERFECT OUR SWING...

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Down where magnolia blossoms white

Summer breezes touch wind chime's scales

Lovers sleep soundly in the night


                     Time flies, ships sail   

On a downhill slide...

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Set adrift on hapless tides
Away from distant shore
Aloft in time and lost in rhyme
There's nothing less than more

The winds that blow and fill my sails
Are but a memory
They whisper words as they propel
My ship across the sea

I ride the waves, both up and down
I chart...

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We sail away beneath the sun -
vows made. Our journey’s now begun.
We glide till twilight’s tangerine
drips into ocean’s azure-green.
To shore we’re led by June’s light breeze.
You give my hand a little squeeze.
We wait for time most opportune
for honey underneath the moon!

Jan. 5, 2019
for the Lay...

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Releasing the rigid anchor line
Leaving the safety of land in our wake
Warm July zephyrs filling the sails
Resting even hands upon the tiller
As the bow broken waves drift slowly aft
Herring Gulls night songs hang as we pass
Violet clouds drifting in pinkish bronze dusk
Outlining the schooner adrift...

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You look sideways at me
I look straight on at you
You glance towards me
I stare at you
memorize the stiches of your coat
they are uneven
 it must have been handmade
You look up at the sky
I look at your shoes
They are slim and obviously Italian
You've been traveling in...

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One should not venture into the open sea before he learns well of how to sail

For

Many dangers are lurking beneath the resentful waves that could make one fail!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
  16 November 2022...

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From the sagging back porch, I could see the honeysuckles.
They twisted the fence, pulled it away from its wooden posts
And I would sit beneath it for hours. Drinking the nectar from
the flowers.

It never seemed to rain when I was young. 

Sometimes, when I fall into...

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Onward to the Moon, to Mercury, to Venus, to Mars
  Set sail for the Heavens, to near and far Stars
What the mind of Man can conceive, he'll achieve
  If he wills it's no dream; he's just got to believe...

History's littered with Empires stopped...

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Fair winds and following seas.
May full sails surge with scudding breeze.
May peaceful moorings host your craft
wherever indulgent winds waft.

A toast now to your safe return.
May choppy seas be left astern.
May evening offer pleasing berth
to ensconce in halcyon firth....

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